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Microsoft Word form - Preserving "lines" to type on instead of underscoring and underlining

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Mar 15, 2026382402 views
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We've got a form that somebody created in Microsoft Word 2007. As an example, it would look something like this: Name: ________________________________ Where the "line" is created by somebody typing in underscores. Now when somebody goes to type in their name, it ends up looking something like: Nam…

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Fix for: Microsoft Word form - Preserving "lines" to type on instead of underscoring and underlining

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There are two possible ways to do this: Use a 1x1 table and remove the borders except the bottom border. This will allow people to type in the empty table without shifting text around. The limitation is that the 1x1 table must be on its own line. Th…

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